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- Ukraine’s army spokesman for the eastern front said on Saturday that his troops advanced 1,400 meters around Bakhmout. Serhi Tcherevaty spoke on television.
- “Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine and I will not talk about them in detail”specified for his part Mr. Zelensky during a press conference. The Ukrainian president refuses to say if it is the great attack prepared for months by the general staff in kyiv.
- According to the latest report from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, five people are dead and 27 are missing in areas under Ukrainian control due to this sudden rise in water levels. The Russian occupation authorities deplored for their part at least eight dead.
- The destruction of the Kakhovka dam is a “direct consequence” of the Russian invasion, according to Justin Trudeau. On a surprise visit to kyiv on Saturday June 10, Mr. Trudeau did not go so far as to blame Moscow for the explosion that destroyed this dam. Both sides blame each other for this disaster.
- Zelensky says 3,000 people have been evacuated from flooded areas under Ukrainian control. Added to this are 5,000 in the occupied territories, according to the Russians.
- The Dnieper will return to its normal course by June 16, according to pro-Russian authorities. According to the head of the occupied part of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldociting “preliminary calculations” of RusHydro, a company specializing in hydroelectric power plants, the Dnieper should return to its normal course by June 16.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense also released a video showing a column of destroyed Western-made tanks and armored vehiclessome carcasses still smoking, in the south of the Donetsk region.
- Emmanuel Macron calls Tehran “to immediately end support” Iranian to Russia. During a telephone interview with the Iranian President, Ebrahim Raïssi, on Saturday June 10, the French President also “alert to the gravity of the consequences, both security and humanitarian, of the delivery by Iran of drones to Russia”.
- After the closure of the Icelandic embassy in Moscow, Russia promises ” answer “. “All actions against Reykjavik’s Russia will inevitably elicit a response”said the Russian Foreign Ministry, accusing Iceland of having ” ruin “ relations between the two countries.
- Cyril Ramaphosa briefs Xi Jinping on African mediation in Russia and Ukraine. The South African president has informed his Chinese counterpart of the upcoming mediation mission of six African leaders to Russia and Ukraine, the South African presidency announced on Saturday. Vladimir Poutine and Volodymyr Zelensky had given their agreement to receive this peace mission last month. She is ready to go there in mid-June.
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